Christian Kirk

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Christian Kirk (born April 24, 1963 in Quakenbrück , Lower Saxony ) is a German publisher and entrepreneur from Darmstadt .

Life

After high school and military service , Kirk began studying industrial engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1986 . In 1988, parallel to his studies, he began his first ventures into self-employment. In 1991 Christian Kirk moved to his second residence in Barcelona as managing partner of ICR Star Icecream OHG .

Christian Kirk (right) in conversation with Bill Clinton and German Development Minister Dirk Niebel on May 24, 2013 on the occasion of the cooperation agreement between the BMZ and the Clinton Foundation on the subject of “Aid for Africa”.

In 1992, Kirk founded the Darmstadt-based "Media Team Gesellschaft für Kommunikation mbH". In 1999 he founded "European Sport Verlag GmbH", "European Culture Verlag GmbH" and "European Economic Publisher GmbH", which he united under the umbrella of "Medien Gruppe Kirk AG" in 1999. Kirk and his publishers publish around 300 books, particularly on German and European business locations. In 2012 he published a book about Afghanistan as a location for economic prospects for the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development , followed in 2013 as a further commissioned work by the German government, a presentation on Tunisia as a business location. A further 38 international locations were analyzed and conceptually prepared for publication.

Christian Kirk has published art and culture volumes with the city of Darmstadt as special publications, in 2005 sunny days in Darmstadt, in 2010 Darmstadt inspirations . Art.Culture.Life. Other special publications were handbooks in 1997 and 2001 for life in old age under the title Pro 60 .

In the scientific field, Kirk and José L. Encarnacao, the founder of the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD), founded The Colorful World of Computer-Generated Images, Visual Interaction and Visual Communication in 2004 . Computer Graphics in Practice published.

As a result of the financial crisis that began in 2007, the Darmstadt-based publisher published a book about Germany's financial center in collaboration with the Federal Minister of Finance Wolfgang Schäuble and the Hessian Finance Minister Thomas Schäfer .

Kirk also published the work on business locations with additional articles on his website “european business network”. In addition to the publishers, Kirk set up his own film studio under the brand "ebn24TV" in 2007.

In 2009, Kirk founded "European Consult und Invest GmbH" for his advisory activities. In 2014 Christian Kirk also founded the "WI-Rheinblick Projekt GmbH", whose task is the urban development of properties, including former industrial and commercial sites, in Wiesbaden-Kastel. In the same year he founded the planning company "Guliver" and acquired the Rheinport port, founded in Wiesbaden in 1946.

Christian Kirk is married and lives with his wife and six children in Darmstadt in the south of Hesse .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.echo-online.de
  2. ↑ http://www.ihk-nuernberg.de/de/IHK-Magazin-WiM/WiM-Archiv/WIM-Daten/2004-02/IHK-News/-Wirtschaftsstandort-Region-Nuernberg-.jsp
  3. ^ Christian Kirk (ed.): Business location Afghanistan. Chances and prospects of a country .; European Economic Publishing House, Darmstadt 2012, ISBN 978-3-942517-03-4 ; http://www.ebn24.com/?page_id=641
  4. ^ Christian Kirk (ed.): Tunisia as a business location. Chances and prospects of a country .; European Economic Publishing House, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-942517-13-3
  5. ↑ Encarnacao, José L./Christian Kirk (eds.): The Colorful World of Computer-Generated Images, Visual Interaction and Visual Communication. Computer Graphics in Practice .; European Economic Publishing House, Darmstadt 2004, ISBN 3-932845-89-7
  6. ↑ https://www.hessen.de/presse/pressemitteilung/finanzminister-dr-thomas-schaefer-die-hessische-landesregierung-wird-den-0
  7. ^ Christian Kirk (Ed.): Finanzplatz Deutschland. Opportunities and perspectives .; European Economic Publishing House, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-942517-16-4
personal data
SURNAME Kirk, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Quakenbrück , Lower Saxony